The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 10

True enough, Hok Lee’s right cheek was twice the size of his left, and it soon began to feel very uncomfortable.

Who acts: right cheek, cheek · What happens: be, begin, feel · To what, where: size

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right cheek, cheek), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 True	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 size	punct
4	Hok	Hok	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cheek	nmod:poss
5	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hok	flat
6	’s	's	PART	_	4 Hok	case
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cheek	amod
8	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 size	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 size	cop
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 size	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 size	det
12	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 left	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 left	nmod:poss
15	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 size	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 began	advmod
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 size	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feel	mark
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 uncomfortable	advmod
24	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feel	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hok's right cheek	the size	of Hok's left; twice property	tree rules
2	begin	past	cheek		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	cheek not said here		uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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